The Thurston Thrives Coordinating Council will
meet on Monday, September 19th, 3:00PM at the Thurston County Courthouse, 2000 Lakeridge
Dr. SW.
For more meeting information,
click
here…

The Thurston County
Chamber Foundation, fiscal agent for Thurston
Thrives as a public-private partnership, is now
hosting the Thurston Thrives website.The site has new features, including a
calendar listing all main action team meetings.
Please find it at
www.thurstonthrives.org.

For 2016, membership on the Thurston Thrives
Coordinating Council has changed: As of the
February meeting, Peter Brennan, Providence St.
Peter Foundation (as philanthropy rep., taking the
place of Liz Davis, who became staff to the
Coordinating Council), J.W. Foster, City of Yelm
(south county local government rep., taking the
place of Dennis McVey), Cynthia Pratt, City of Lacey
(local government rep.), and Mark Freedman, Thurston
County Public Health & Social Services (as
Clinical/Emergency Care Action Team rep.) all joined
the Council.

Our community’s initiative to improve the health of
all residents will be guided by a coordinating
council as more and more people continue to act on
the strategies developed in 2013-2014. The Thurston
Thrives Coordinating Council (TTCC) will have its
first meeting, convened by the Thurston County
Chamber Foundation as fiscal agent, on April 23,
2015. The initial ten (10) members of the Council,

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Three (3) members from Business (Doug
DeForest, Thurston Transit Oriented
Development; David Schaffert, Thurston
County Chamber of Commerce; and Cheryl
Selby, Vivala);

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Two (2) members from Education (Tammie Jensen-Tabor, Tumwater
School District; Vicky Lamoreaux,
North Thurston Public Schools);

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Three (3) members
from Government (Dennis McVey, City of
Rainier; Jeannine Roe, City of Olympia; and
Sandra Romero, Thurston County
Commissioner);

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Three (3) members from Philanthropy (Liz
Davis, NW Venture Philanthropy; Paul Knox,
United Way of Thurston County; Norma
Schuiteman, The Community Foundation of
South Puget Sound);

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One (1) member from the Thurston Asset
Building Coalition (Schelli Slaughter,
Family Support Center of South Sound);

will be joined by the nominees from the Action
Teams, an education sector representatives and a
member from the new Law & Justice action
area, who
are anticipated to be confirmed at that first
meeting:

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Bud Blake, Thurston County
Commissioner, from Housing;

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Christina Daniels, Puget Sound
Capital, from Economy;

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Kevin Haughton, MD, Physicians of
SW Washington, from Clinical Care;

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Karen Messmer, Olympia Safe
Streets, from Community Design;

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Art Starry, Thurston County Public Heath
and Social Services, from Environment;

What is Thurston Thrives?

The
Thurston County Board of Health is
joining with community leaders from business, education,
city government, neighborhoods, local charities, social and
medical care groups to honor what we do for our families'
health, to celebrate our collective efforts, and find ways
to do even better together. They call it Thurston
Thrives!

Thurston Thrives is a project aimed at bringing together
community partners of Thurston County around the work we
share. One of the main focuses of the project is to
ensure that our county is thriving through the collaboration
on the public health and social services that we bring to
our community, to honor those who make Thurston County a
healthy and safe place to live, and to align efforts to make
an even bigger difference in the health of our community.
The purpose is to engage our leaders across the board to
move forward an action agenda we can all believe in to
improve health for all Thurston
County residents.

When it comes to health, our
community is recognizing the many ways we can
promote it in our daily lives. We can build
health into how we live, learn, work and play.

How can you participate?

Improving health is not a mystery,
really. It takes effort not just from doctors, and not
just from government. It takes action by all parts of
the community. Some of this we commonly associate with
health: Medical care, social services and the environment.
But it is also things we do not always think about as
health: Education, jobs and housing.

We will be reaching out across our community to achieve
these connections and to align efforts behind common goals.
We want to build on what is already going on. What is
new in Thurston Thrives is keeping better in touch with each
other's progress, and supporting each other's work.

Everyone has a part to play in the health of our community -
we hope you will join us to engage this strategic approach.
Because a healthy community is something we all believe in.

To sign up for
email updates about Thurston
Thrives,
click here. When filling out the form, please
include your name, email
and any other contact information you want us to have.

Join Us!

To be
directed to Thurston Thrives Action Team Strategy Maps, click on
the action team link below. The link will direct you to
the individual Thurston Thrives Action Team page. Scroll to the
"Strategy Map" section: